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κώμη

kṓmē · G2968 · Greek · 27 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. village

    A relatively unimportant population center (in contrast with πόλις ‘city,’)

    Examples

    Matthew 9:35 Jesus was going through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness.

    Matthew 10:11 “And whatever city or village you enter, inquire who is worthy in it, and stay at his house until you leave that city.

    Matthew 14:15 Now when it was evening, the disciples came to Him and said, “This place is secluded and the hour is already past to eat; send the crowds away, so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

  2. the people there, the people of a village

    The inhabitants of a village

    Examples

    Acts 8:25 So, when they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, and were preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

5 occurrences in 7 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

5 occurrences in 4 groups

Named alongside itApposition

5 occurrences in 5 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

22 occurrences in 4 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 2 words
חַוָּה chavvâh · H2333 · settlement, encampment
Hebrew חַוָּה denotes a small settlement or town, closely corresponding to Greek κώμη's sense of a hamlet or village-level community, both distinguishing rural/smaller settlements from fortified cities.
חָצֵר châtsêr · H2691 · village, settlement, courtyard
κώμη (kṓmē, G2968) κώμη denotes an unwalled village or hamlet (as if laid down), while חָצֵר (châtsêr, H2691) חָצֵר primarily denotes a court or enclosed settlement but extends to village contexts; the terms align in their shared reference to small settlements, with חָצֵר emphasizing the enclosed/settled aspect where κώμη emphasizes the unwalled/hamlet character.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Village1.92
κώμη names a village, smaller and unwalled compared to a city. Matthew 9:35 recounts that “Jesus was going through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom,” the κώμας naming these villages included in His circuit.
The people there, the people of a village11.62
The word can also denote the people of a village collectively, standing for its inhabitants. Luke 9:6 recounts that the disciples “went throughout the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere,” the κώμας naming these village communities they went among.
Word family 17 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κεῖμαι keîmai · G2749 · to lie, to recline, to be · 24×κώμηkṓmē · G2968κοιμάω koimáō · G2837 · to sleep, to be asleep, sleep · 18×ἀνακεῖμαι anakeîmai · G345 · to recline, to eat, to be at table · 14×κατάκειμαι katákeimai · G2621 · to lie, lying down, to recline · 12×ἀντίκειμαι antíkeimai · G480 · to oppose, to be hostile toward, to show hostility · 8×ἐπίκειμαι epíkeimai · G1945 · to be on, to lie on, to press against · 7×συνανάκειμαι synanákeimai · G4873 · to eat together, to associate in a meal · 7×περίκειμαι períkeimai · G4029 · to be around, to surround, to be placed around · 5×πρόκειμαι prókeimai · G4295 · to exist openly, to exist clearly, to exist later · 5×ἀπόκειμαι apókeimai · G606 · to store, to put away in a place, to exist · 4×κοίτη koítē · G2845 · bed, sexual activity, sexual life · 4×κῶμος kōmos · G2970 · orgy, revelling, carousing · 3×παράκειμαι parákeimai · G3873 · to be present, to be here, to be there · 2×κοίμησις koímēsis · G2838 · to sleep, to be asleep, sleep · 1×κοιτών koitṓn · G2846 · bedroom · 1×κωμόπολις kōmópolis · G2969 · town, market town · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κόμης, ἡ (akin to κεῖμαι, κοιμάω, properly, the common sleeping-place to which laborers…
κόμης, ἡ (akin to κεῖμαι, κοιμάω, properly, the common sleeping-place to which laborers in the fields return; Curtius, § 45 (related is English home)) (from Hesiod, Herodotus down), a village: Mt 9:35; Mt 10:11; Mk 11:2; Lk 5:17; Lk 9:52 (here Tdf. πόλιν), and often in the Synoptative Gospels; Jn 11:1, Jn 11:30; with the name of the city near which the villages lie and to whose municipality they belong: Καισαρείας, Mk 8:27 (often so in the Sept. for בְּנות with the name of a city; cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, i., p. 220{a} (B. D., under the word , 7); also for חַצְרֵי and חַצְרות with the name of a city); by metonymy, the inhabitants of villages, Acts 8:25; used also of a small town, as Bethsaida, Mk 8:23, Mk 8:26, cf. ; Jn 1:45; of Bethlehem, Jn 7:42; for עִיר, Josh 10:39; Josh 15:9 (Complutensian LXX); Isa 42:11. (B. D., under the word Villages.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Population Centers26 occurrencesSocio-Political1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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